In the last little while I have been thinking the same thing... unless other carriers haven't leaked that they are also at the same level. For a true global launch most of the major carriers in the markets indicated thus far should all be at the same training levels.

Given my experience with EU carriers (Belgium) I have some serious doubts that they are actually trained at all...they usually have a low expertise compared to my(limited) own. What's your impression in other eu countries (France, Germany, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Spain, Italy...)???

on the t-mobile site in the netherlands on the page coming soon, the bb 10 is still not on it but phones that arive end of feb and martch are on it. i hope this does not mean that i have to wait that long and on the KPN and Vodafone also nothing...... i want my f-ing phone

vodafone and KPN are okay/good to give info to customers
T-mobile sucks big time no info no help and their insurence OMG

At the weekend I spoke to a Carphone Warehouse employee in the UK, and he said they were going for BB10 training on Tues (yesterday). He also said that loads of people were already asking about the BB10 devices!!

I'm so happy to be a Rogers customer right now! Lol. Is this a sign that the phone will be available maybe the week of launch? Don't they usually train 2 weeks before a phone is up for sale? I can't take this waiting anymore! SO EXCITED!!!!

Yes, I saw that too. Some of the features I saw in the PowerPoint I have never quite seen mentioned before. Wow! These are just some of the surprises awaiting the launch event... Spoilers! But good ones! And if this is coming to Playbook eventually, then even more freakingly awesome!

Good to know! Thanks to Bla1ze and everyone else!
Looks like we may have to have our BB 10 launch party at the nearest pub to the phone store (or is that mobile computing store )!
It's the beginning of a great adventure...
#BB10Believe

the presentation looks great and convincing. I think I will share this to my IT Department and Top Level Management at my working place. Hope that IT and Management will embarace and replace BBOS 7 to BB10, hehehe

I've heard it on good authority that if you are in the UK and want a BB10 you will need to submit to the "Banana Pantone Test" first, and pass it.

Simply put, all Brits will need to compare their current teeth color to the Pantone color called "Banana Yellow". If your teeth are within 5 shades, either way, of "Banana Yellow" you will be banned from owning a BB10.

So get those tooth brushed out and try using them more than once a month!!!

You do know that's because UK dentists are more focussed on delivering healthy teeth than persuading people to have them treated with (possibly harmful) whitening chemicals or surface coatings.
It's like unnecessary orthodontic treatment, very common in the US, that can cause future skull problems. Given a choice between perfectly regular teeth and a lifetime of headaches, and healthy if slightly irregular teeth, we prefer the latter. Except in the county of Essex, which is kind of a mid-west suburb dropped into the Eastern UK.
It's a cultural thing. You have Hollywood and Fox News, we have a culture.

We already have a backup solution....Blackberry Protect. You also have Desktop Manager which is the real solution.....as for Cloud services.....who has your data....who guarantees it will be there, the security etc.....I personally don't believe in cloud services.

It was stated that they have worked very hard on the QNX platform to maximize battery life to over a day of use......that's good for me as I alway plug in my phone and playbook over night.....No issues at this end.

........... ya ok so lets say the OS is super efficient, and 1800mAh is plenty big enough.... how would it be a bad thing to put in a 2100 or a 2450 in there just to make it last even longer.... i mean... i just dont understand what the limitation is... other companies are producing thinner devices with larger batteries... why is it that RIMM can't do the same... so instead of getting a day of juice with a 1800mAh you get 2 days with a 2100mAh .... or ... well you get what im saying right...

If competition means "do exactly what others do" then what's the point? RIM doesn't have to use a battery that lasts 2 days (as you requested, well suggested). All they need to do is have a good balance of features and efficiency, overall. Get is Blackberry Balance? For the people that don't have time to "play" with their phones for 8 hours per day, BB10 will be just fine. For 90% of users 1800mAh will be plenty. For the other 10% (wow 10 popped up again) not even a car battery will help because they just expect the phone to be as powerful as a dedicated quad-core PC.

Although I've been waiting all this time for this, I expect a lot of these features to JUST NOT WORK.
Currently BBM7 is already blocked by service providers in India.
Video calls will probably face the same fate.

It's not RIM being nice, it's your carriers (and BlackBerry 7 OS engineers to some extent) being jackass Moby D**kwad extraordinaire. While WiFi is completely separate from carrier network (in fact, it's not tied to anybody relative to your smartphone) RIM engineers made it so WiFi functionality is at the mercy of carriers. You need carrier's permission (Service Book) to use a completely unrelated network.

Well, there are still important questions that need to be answered, like availability of the different BB models, how much they gonna cost, whether or not you still need a BB plan and which big name apps are available at launch or soon after.

BlackBerry remember seems like the most interesting part of the built in functions. No more leaks crackberry. 14 days left, let's keep everything else secret from here on. Whenever you feel the need to post new never before seen information repeat these words... "the devil is a liar, get thee behind me satan" and just back away from the keyboard.

The other companies can make thinner batteries with more juice because their batteries are not removable. The Z10s battery is removable and imo has more than enough juice! And I prefer removable so this is a win-win situation! BB10 FTW!

I'm loving the BB Remember app, I'm suspecting people will use it a lot more than they expect.
i'm just extremely interested on how RIM plans on handling BB10 for Playbook. Specifically BBM, I can't imagine bridge being smooth enough for screen sharing or video calls. Hopefully they bring hub to PB but it might be slightly underpowered. Thoughts???

Going out on a limb and saying this phone will last the same amount of time as my bold 9900. Going out on an even flimsier limb saying this phone may last about 2-3 hours longer. Going out on the thinnest limb that can support me and saying, if rumors are true that it boots in less than 10 seconds, I wouldn't be annoyed to turn it off as I am with my bold 9900, and my playbook, and therefore it can last me anything from 3-5 hours more.

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